Gourmet_DAO I replied to this post earlier then deleted it, cause I realized I read the whole post wrong, shake my head. I get what your saying ( I hope THIS time). I def. Dropped the ball on the stars ( though, I honestly not think it would have come to much higher), but if she had said any of that, I would have gone back and checked it. What she was more focused on was the ML and wanting me to take back what I said, I straight up refused cause... I still stand by what I said about him. Anyway, I'm over it. It's too much drama to worry about something that in the end wasn't all that important. But thank you for your message 
Authors deleting reviews
Gem4Life Boring weekdays and weekends! Tell me about it. I am sitting and doing all sort of procrastination that I can and my work is glaring at me - poor thing is waiting when I will start with it.
I'm just here for the :tea:
Gem4Life you did the right thing. The author shouldn't have deleted it since a story with only positive opinion is too suspicious. Also if it contained useful tips and author actually changed those bad parts then it shows that he/she is growing and willing to grow.
Also peoole really need to stop being snowflakes.
Heh. I don't see a problem with a sex-scene ten chapters in (provided we're talking healthy sex). From a pacing point of view it would probably be better to start off with the sex-scene rather than wait ten chapters (if you want to have the juicy parts that early at all), but that's just a personal preference of mine.
There are several reasons for an early scene of that type. The character is sleeping around, or both characters are already in an intimate relationship from the start, or the story is about a character who wants the episode forgotten for different reasons.
Well, my ten cents.
For example, they wrote a swap review to me, and then for some reason the review author himself deleted it. I was unpleasant. Why did he remove it? I gave him two honest reviews of 4 and 5 stars, why did he delete his 4.2 stars? I do not understand. But I did not go to him and did not delete my reviews. This is too shallow. But now I see his work, just do not give him feedback. If you want to delete a review, you can first name the reason for the author and then delete it. And then, so quietly erase everything, causes at least surprise and not understanding why?
I am sorry my English is not so good, I hope you will understand what I was talking about.
Gourmet_DAO I think I do. That is sad that he did that. I'm sorry
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Tomoyuki (1)This story is kinda cliche
The writing quality is pretty bad and mostly on convo of the character's
The background is good
And its not pretty bad after reading 1-20 chaps. (Posting this here to prove that I don't delete negative reviews)
(2)
A little bit confusing and the FLn- Kim Nana is stupid or what?? (the FL name is same as me 
)...
And annoying.. I'm frustrating to read her behaviour..
Sorry Author..
But the idea of the story is good and i hope is will be better in the future chapters!
Fighting Author!
(3)
The ML is seems like a rational one , but the FL is in one of those dumb ones n i just one to hit n Shake her so bad n she is not a strong FL n when i initially i started this novel i didn't keep high hopes to begin with but surely if u r looking for a fun read i think its a good one. The author did a good jod with character development except for the FL, the writing style is straight forward n the story has a good flow to it. And to conclude i really appreciate the FL best friend she is a sensible character. And every story has its charm n according to me the charm in this story r the background characters.
(4)
This is one of my favorite written story.I love historical romance and the choice of characters are great! I just have a problem with the choice of language/words between royalties.Its too modern and their swearing is too much I guess.Not consistent to the story theme at all !But I still love it only it can be better
(And even this!)
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(Plus lot more)
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Aysel_Inara This is the book he's talking about.
https://www.webnovel.com/book/13423591905759305/The-Virgin-Outcast-Who-Stole-The-Emperor's-Heart
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Hey y'all, I'm the author of the book which I'm still yet to believe is causing this much trend. Thanks by the way, (writer of this post) because I'm looking for an audience.
OK.. He said I deletes my book negative reviews (lies) but I deleted his (and I will do it again and again because
(1) He wrote a false statement
(2) Because it's my book
(3) Just to annoy him/her more.
Now the reason why I deleted his review is because he posted a lie about "The Virgin Outcast Who Stole The Emperor's Heart."
Know this, I wasn't planning on deleting the review and I don't delete negative reviews.
He said the Emperor forced the girl into sleeping with him because he's her husband (false)
He said the book is rapey and only base around a lustful man.(lies)
He said the Emperor slept with her at chapter 9 (false)
They had sex at chapter (51) and the FL is the one who asked for it. I hate rape case and this is why I'm angry at his review for he made my book seems like that's all it's about.
I told him this but he kept on blabing on about how I can't accept criticism and threatened to report my original work to webnovel, please are you the author or do you know the story content more than the writer?
I have receive worse reviews, even the ones who just write meaningless things like (fhjllllhsCbnn). Mind yourself readers and google constructive criticism.
Example of constructive criticism: This book is so bad. The grammar is off and there is a lot of mistake. To rectify this, download grammarly for the grammar (right word) and get an editor for the mistakes.
And there's a lot of genres:
Historical fiction
Science fiction
Fantasy
Non fiction
Historical romance
Contemporary romance.
Now, in all this genre's ..if you come across one which isn't your cup of tea ..please pass aside (move on and look for your genre)
Link to the book, for those asking because I'm not ashamed of my work.
https://www.webnovel.com/book/123591905759305/
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OJROMANCE It’s hard to understand who is right and who is to blame. The offended reviewer, who is constantly removed, or the author, who has his own view on the novel. To understand this you need to read at least 51 chapters ?! You are joking?! Especially if this is not your favorite genre? On the other hand, it is possible both the author and the reviewer, thus engaged in the promotion of the novel. Since it is usually not accepted by network ethics to indicate the author of a work, as this violates the rules for using the site. And then it turns out some kind of black PR, which spins the novel to be read and given feedback? I may be wrong in this, but to read chapter 51 of a genre that I don’t like, I'm sorry but I don’t want to read it. Since I have more interesting novels in those genres that I like, in particular about DAO, the path of enlightenment, history, fiction of reality.
The author can only wish strength and search for those who like this genre, who are ready to read at least 51 chapters in order to understand who is right and who is not.
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Gourmet_DAO My God, are y,all dumb? I didn't say you have to read the book, talk more of reading up to 51 chapters.
I said the Emperor and Empress had sex at chapter 51, because he said the Emperor forced himself on the FL when he only read 9 chapters.
I'm not begging anyone to read my book, if you don't like it then don't read it.
copied from my previous post
(He said the Emperor slept with her at chapter 9 (false)
They had sex at chapter (51) and the FL is the one who asked for it.)
Y'all seriously need to read thoroughly before commenting.
OJROMANCE I’m not surprised that you received a bad review, you don’t know how to conduct a conversation. Therefore, having received criticism, you immediately rush at the reviewer with insults. Thus violating the rules for using the site.
Dont @ me for something I don't have any involvement with. It's bad form.
You dont owe us an explanation. You said it so yourself in your response.
Your response is making you look so much worse than the OP did. I understand your goal is protecting your honor, but you're only serving to make yourself look childish.
OJROMANCE sorry, but that is not true and it did not tell me any of that. Please pull up the messages that you sent to me. I never lied in my post I stated my opinion as I told you SEVERAL times, so while you are hear making false claims. Also I never said he raped her, sso where that came from is behind me. I have a right to write this post as well as a review on a story I did not like.
I can sti view the messages that she deleted, but I can't view my response. If anyone knows how to paste them here please let me know. Thing is, I was already over this, but since you want to slander me thrn that's not okay. I never said your name not your novel. I get it, you would be mad, but so am I. What I don't like is you lying on me. If you want to combat anything I said at least be truthful in it. Also I even said in this post that no rape actually happened, so maybe you're the one who needs to actually read *ish before you come at someone side ways. I have always come to you with respect, so for you to sit here and lie on me after you have deleted the original review is sick. Go get your head fixed
And since we are clarifying ish, your right I do not know if they ended up having sex, but from where I stopped at they sure as sht we're heading there. And add on to it, YOUR own warning about explicit content and I was too put off to read anymore of it. That may have been the final straw but that was by no means the only issue I had with that book. And if you had properly read my review you would have known that. But you were more concerned with getting me to change it, than anything else.
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OJROMANCE Why would you tag me?
Anyways, since you did, I took a quick look at your synopsis and since you"ve said that you can take constructive criticism well, here is some for you.
Q of queen shouldn't be capitalized.
Same goes for the emperor.
Despises.
Wishes
She isn't given a choice' should be a separate sentence.
Sibling's
Despises
Enters
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Besides, how exactly can you call someone dumb and take the conversation ahead in such an unpleasant manner? It was absolutely uncalled for.
xcares Um, I think you'll find the purpose of the review is to help people decide whether they should read the story or not, not tell them to read the story and decide for themselves. And if you're worried about spoiler, use spoiler tag. Otherwise the review isn't going to help much. You need to elaborate why you think the story is good/bad or warn people what's in it or tell people why it's worth reading, not just leave a single vague sentence and tell people to find out for themselves.
What you consider "stupid" or "moronic" isn't necessarily what others consider stupid. Elaborate why you think the main character is stupid (use spoiler tags if necessary) and leave it to the readers whether they agree or disagree with your definition of stupid (and I don't mean them reading the actual story).
It's like an Amazon review, people go onto Amazon to check if the quality of the product they are considering to buy is worth the purchase or not. Just saying the product is poor without explaining why isn't helpful. People want to know why they shouldn't spend their money on the product, or in this case, why they shouldn't invest their time in reading. And vague reviews that don't actually give details or explain the statements/claims they make aren't something you can take seriously, because as I said, sometimes the insults and "criticisms" are childish rather than justified. You need to justify why you think it's bad/stupid, otherwise it comes away as little more than whining, and you might as well complain about it in the chapter comments than write a review, that quite frankly, doesn't serve the purpose of a review.
It is so awful that we cannot have a civilised conversation. If there is anything that annoys me the most, then that's - bad choice of words.
You make dozens of criticism regarding my book. You disagree with my every point. You find my perspective ridiculous. Everything is fine with me but the moment you go personal, do the name calling which I find sick and use adjectives that are completely uncalled for - you would lose me there.
I mean what, people? Who are we? Kindergarten kids to forget how a conversation and discussion is done? It is disappointing to see that people are forgetting the very basic thing, the basic human respect towards each other.
I am sorry. I have got no intention to offend anyone but please, learn to have a respectful conversation and also, learn to agree to disagree peacefully!
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OJROMANCE None of the reviews are "negative" - there certainly are criticisms, but they mostly sound positive.
(1) The background is good And it's not pretty bad after reading 1-20 chapters. (3.5 stars)
(2) But the idea of the story is good and I hope is will be better in the future chapters! (3.5 stars)
(3) surely if u r looking for a fun read i think its a good one. The author did a good jod with character development except for the FL, the writing style is straight forward n the story has a good flow to it. And to conclude i really appreciate the FL best friend she is a sensible character. And every story has its charm n according to me the charm in this story r the background characters. (4.5 stars)
(4) This is one of my favorite written story.I love historical romance and the choice of characters are great! (4.5 stars)
Not even going to mention the troll review, which neither criticizes nor compliments, but gives you a 3 star (I wonder if you'll delete it if it was a 1 star review).
Either you have no idea what a "negative" review is, or you're just shooting yourself in the foot. I honestly don't know what Gem4Life wrote, so I'm going to be neutral here and reserve judgement until I actually see her review for myself, but honestly, you're not going to convince anyone. How are 4.5 star reviews even remotely considered "negative"?
Furthermore, you literally wrote at Chapter 10 "Warning: Detailed mature scene" and you had quite the explicit foreplay (and no matter how I read it, it seemed forced onto poor Nana, who didn't give consent, so it's pretty much sexual assault), so it's pretty dishonest of you to attack Gem4Life and accuse her of being a liar while not admitting that you did have the Emperor sexually assault Nana (and no, just because there was no penetration with his...uh...d, doesn't mean it's not sexual assault - and he used his fingers - sorry, everyone, if I gave too much info). Even if you claim that it's not sexual assault, it's still a pretty explicit scene that involves fingering and undressing, but why did you not clarify that? I don't think you're in any position to accuse people of lying.
You need to be less biased and not pretend that high-rating reviews that positively compliment you are "negative" reviews. An example of a negative review is (2) but without the "But the idea of the story is good" and a complete lack of encouragement. Hell, the reviewer even gave you 3.5 stars, which is a decent score - a negative review would be 1 or 2 stars. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen a single 1 or 2 star review in your story at all. There is nothing lower than 3 stars and that belongs to that troll review that didn't even make a single negative remark, so I'm not sure if that can even count as "negative."
Uhh... The fact that authors can delete reviews in the first place seems... Worrisome? Shouldn't they only be able to flag them and ask the platform to delete them?
Yes, you can artificially inflate your rating by deleting all the bad reviews. They no longer count, which is why the rating system doesn't mean anything here.
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I got four chapters in and I wanted to go see my gynecologist. Mostly because the author had clearly never had a pap-smear nor a well-woman exam, and has no clue how uncomfortble they actually are. SMH. I really needed to feel the awkwardness of my husband to be, the murderer of my family, the girl(?) I had a crush on when I was younger and haven't seen in who knows how long, the murder of my family's right hand man, and whoever the hotdog else was there (names were being dropped like crazy), in the room waiting for the results of my hymen examination. wowee. get me off this wild ride.
It was a really interesting place to start the story, but the first 3 chapters were so hard to follow, and then the hymooonnnnn examinatttiiooonn was resolved in one sentence. Wow I guess it wasn't a big deal then. I hope the doctor poked it with his finger, ruining the whole needlessly confusing plot.
Cringe.
The FL was just kinda in love with him because he was hot? Thats it? She was an outcast because her father betrayed the emperor? She was saved because she was usefull and not useful? Why didn't the emperor just add him to his harem? Why would you allow your son to marry the daughter of a traitor, the daughter of the man you murdered? Ah, because the author says so. Its just like that! Us stupid simple minded readers would never understand the complications of a young woman who's essentially being sold into slavery and forced to marry a complete stranger. But it's ok because the guys a prince! Beautiful people can't be mean or abusive! It's not possible! Only ugly people and poor people can be bad! Stupid readers... too dumb to understand that every bad thing a character does can just be ignored because of their status and a six pack!!1!
Why think about yourself, about your flaws as a man when you can just look in a mirror marvel at your beeutifteee!
Why be worried about the future when you were just kinda hand waved into the royal family, even though you were a traitor and have literally no one? You're pretty, the girl(?) you're in love with is pretty, and your husband is just... a god amoung men!
I'm going to puke. This is some nasty tea.
Lilliny To be fair, if your father betrayed the Emperor, I'm pretty sure you'll be branded as an outcast because of your familial association with him. That happens a lot in reality.
A lot of your points are valid, though. I'm not sure why the Emperor ever thought it would be a good idea to marry his son off to the daughter of a traitor (wait, I'm confused, I thought the Emperor was the one who married Nana, did I misread something?). Normally the politically correct and logical route to take is to kill her, to tie up loose ends and to ensure she doesn't plot revenge and all that stuff real Emperors are worried about.
And yeah, the male lead's behavior disturbs me. A lot. "Oh, I don't want to hurt you but I end up hurting you anyway. It's okay, though, because I never intended to hurt you, so all is forgiven!"
Tomoyuki Well the reviews that had a proper list of positives and negatives right along with explanations about my grading, have been deleted.
Some of them automatically by wn itself and the rest by the authors.
Cause they don't care to have a negative review on their front page and neither does wn.
What both writers and WN need are average positive review scores above 4.
There are atrocious novels that have 4.8 and 4.9 rating just cause all the negative reviews are deleted and the fake positives keep piling up.
That's my understanding formed by seeing almost all the negative reviews deleted.
Why bother spend the time?
It's more fun to see people actually asking around about the reasons things work this way in WN XD
this is the best tea that I've read all week, please continue. :grin:
I haven't really found anything wrong with what you say either. I find it rather amusing.
xcares Ah, damn it. I can understand your frustration then. It must be really painful when you spent all that time to type out a well thought out review, listing what you both like and dislike about the story, only for the writer to callously delete it. It feels like a complete waste of your time. I hear you on that one.